Hebrews 11:10

For he was awaiting a city having firm foundations, whose designer and builder is God.

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In The King James Version

For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

In Context

9By faith, he stayed in the Land of the Promise as if in a foreign land, dwelling in cottages, with Isaac and Jacob, co-heirs of the same promise.

11By faith also, Sarah herself, being barren, received the ability to conceive offspring, even though she was past that age in life. For she believed him to be faithful, who had promised.

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Cross References

John 14:2In my Father’s house, there are many dwelling places. If there were not, I would have told you. For I go to prepare a place for you.

Philippians 3:20But our way of life is in heaven. And from heaven, too, we await the Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ,

Hebrews 12:22But you have drawn near to mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to the company of many thousands of Angels,

Hebrews 13:14For in this place, we have no everlasting city; instead, we seek one in the future.

Revelation 21:10And he took me up in spirit to a great and high mountain. And he showed me the Holy City Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 11:5-32

Exemplars of Faith. ( a. d. 62.) 4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. 5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that… Read the whole commentary →

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